The Great Book of Thrillers
Publisher: Odhams Press
Published: 1935
Language: eng
Number of pages: 768
Copyright date: 1935
Other titles: Great Horror Stories. Great Tales of Terror.
Table of contents: title: 7 • Introduction • essay by H. Douglas Thomson; title: 21 • H2, Etc. • (1932) • short story by A. J. Alan; title: 26 • The Smell in the Library • (1923) • novelette by Michael Arlen; title: 45 • The Man in the Bell • (1821) • short story by W. E. Aytoun; title: 51 • The Mysterious Mansion • non-genre • (1906) • short story by Honoré de Balzac (trans. of La Grande Bretèche [1832]); title: 65 • The Folding Doors • (1912) • short story by Marjorie Bowen; title: 80 • The Lady of Glenwith Grange • non-genre • (1856) • novelette by Wilkie Collins; title: 100 • The New Sun • (1913) • short story by J. S. Fletcher; title: 118 • Hot Water • short story by Val Gielgud; title: 126 • The Island • (1924) • short story by L. P. Hartley; title: 141 • Edward Randolph's Portrait • (1838) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: 152 • The Spectre Bridegroom • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving; title: 166 • The Story of the Greek Slave • (1934) • short story by Frederick Marryat [as by Captain Frederick Marryat]; title: 181 • The Blue Room • short story by Prosper Mérimée (trans. of La chambre bleue [1866]); title: 193 • The Café of Terror • (1925) • short story by E. Phillips Oppenheim; title: 206 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe; title: 217 • The Tarn • (1923) • short story by Hugh Walpole; title: 230 • The Resurrectionist • (1833) • short story by Samuel Warren; title: 245 • The Avenging Chance • (1929) • short story by A. B. Cox (1893-1971) [as by Anthony Berkeley]; title: 261 • The Witness for the Prosecution • non-genre • (1924) • novelette by Agatha Christie; title: 283 • A Lesson in Crime • short story by G. D. H. Cole and Margaret I. Cole; title: 295 • Mr. Pemberton's Commission • short story by Freeman Wills Crofts; title: 308 • Who Killed Castelvetri? • (1928) • novelette by Gilbert Frankau; title: 328 • The Aluminium Dagger • (1909) • novelette by R. Austin Freeman; title: 352 • The Gylston Slander • (1920) • short story by Herbert Jenkins; title: 371 • Arsène Lupin in Prison • [Arsène Lupin • 2] • (1907) • novelette by Maurice Leblanc (trans. of La vie extraordinaire d'Arsène Lupin en prison 1905); title: 389 • The Fenchurch Street Mystery • (1901) • short story by Baroness Orczy [as by Baroness Emmuska Orczy]; title: 406 • Peacock House • (1926) • novelette by Eden Phillpotts; title: 437 • The Vanishing Diamond • non-genre • novelette by John Rhode; title: 453 • Bitter Almonds • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers; title: 465 • The Shadow Man • novella by Edgar Wallace; title: 519 • The Gardener • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson; title: 532 • The Willows • (1907) • novella by Algernon Blackwood; title: 578 • The Italian's Story • (1859) • short story by Catherine Crowe; title: 594 • The Ghost of Dorothy Dingley • (1722) • short story by Daniel Defoe; title: 602 • To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt • (1865) • short story by Charles Dickens; title: 613 • Madam Crowl's Ghost • (1870) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; title: 629 • Black Coffee • (1929) • short story by Jeffery Farnol; title: 642 • The Black Ferry • short story by John Galt (variant of The Book of Life [1831]); title: 653 • The Dreamland Bride • novelette by Théophile Gautier (trans. of La morte amoureuse [1836]); title: 673 • Mary Burnet • (1828) • novelette by James Hogg; title: 694 • The Three Sisters • (1914) • short story by W. W. Jacobs; title: 703 • Mr. Kempe • (1925) • novelette by Walter de la Mare; title: 728 • The Tapestried Chamber • (1828) • short story by Sir Walter Scott; title: 744 • The Frontier Guards • (1929) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield; title: 750 • The Red Room • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells; title: 761 • The Sphinx Without a Secret • (1887) • short story by Oscar Wilde